One of the most unusual: In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a Level 3 field manager was working to repair a fiber line about two miles inland, only to encounter a three-foot long shark in the fiber trench. Lawler also recounts in which a storm toppled a long chain of utility poles in Idaho, sparking a grass fire. Level 3 employees repaired the company’s fiber even as airplanes flew overhead dumping fire retardant to battle the blazes. See Lawler’s full post on the Beyond Bandwidth blog.

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Rich Miller is the founder and editor at large of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

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